Charles swinscoe



(No Model.)

G. SWINSOOB.

METALLIC LATHING.

No. 358,508. r Patented Mar. 1, 1887.

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N. PETERS. Pholwlithbgnpher, Washington, D.C.

Human fiTnTns PATENT CHARLES SWINSCOE, OF CLINTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE CLINTON \VIRE CLCTH COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

METALLIC LATHING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 358,503, dated March 1, 1887.

Application filed September 8, 1886. Serial No.2l2,979. (No model.)

To (ZZZ whom it hwy concern:

Be it knownthat 1, CHARLES Swmscoin, of Clinton, in the county of Vorcester, State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Metallic Lathing, of which the following is a description snfliciently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which said invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings. forming part of this specification, in which Figure l is a plan view representing a piece or web of my improved metallic lathing, and Figs. 2 and 3 likeviews showing modifications of the improvement.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the difi erent figures of the drawings.

My invention relates to that class of metallic lathing which is composed wholly or in part of wire-cloth; and it consists in certain novel details of construction, as hereinafter fully set forth and claimed, the object being to produce a more effective and otherwise desirable article of this character than is now in ordinary use.

The nature of the improvement will be readily understood by all conversant with such matters from the following explanation.

In the drawings, A represents the web of cloth considered as a whole, B the warp-wires, and C the fillingwires. Disposed at intervals in the web A there are narrow fiat metallic strips D, provided with aseries of holes, a. These strips are interwoven with and held in position by the warp-wires B or fillingwires C, as the case may be, but preferably by the warp, and respectively take the places of one or more filling or warp wires, being illserted in the web as it is woven. The object of the strips is to sustain the web and keep it in proper position when it is attached to the furring, and to att'ordaready means of attaching it without the use of staples, ordinary nails being employed for this purpose, which are driven through the holes as. The strips may be provided with holes for the nails, as shown in Fig. 1, or made without holes, as shown in Fig. 2, or every alternate strip may be provided with holes, as shown in Fig. 3. When not provided with holes, the holes may be formed by any suitable implement as the lathing is put up, and when the strips are thin enough to permit it the nails may be driven through them into the furring or beams without first punching holes therefor. It is preferable, however, to provide the strips with nail-holes, and to have them suificiently rigid to sustain the web without sagging when the plastering is applied. It is also preferable to insert the strips in the filling; but they may be inserted in the warp. To impart additional rigidity or strength to the strips, they may be corrugated longitudinally, if desired.

Having thus explained my invention,what I claim is- 1. A plain uncorrugated web or piece of wire lathing comprising interwoven warp and. filling wires, said web being provided at intervals with fiat metallic strips interwoven withthe wires and adapted to receive fastening-nails, substantially as described.

2. A web or piece of wire lathing comprising interwoven warp and filling wires, said web being provided at intervals with flat metallic strips interwoven with the wires, said strips being provided with nailholcs, substantially as described.

CHARLES swnvscon.

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